TToT- Funk Busting
By the time the TToT hop goes live, we are going to be busy getting our weekend started. I should probably be doing ten other things right now, but I don’t want to wait until oh sometime maybe Sunday to get linked. So I’m going to bang out this list quickly so I can get back to work and get the weekend adventures started!
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My very first item this week is a huge one so it counts for as many as the SGV will allow. I am so very thankful to my real-world and blog-world friends for your positive and supportive feedback, comments, e-mails, etc. I’ve been in a real blog funk lately (maybe a real life one, too) and your input has helped me to kind of step back and decide I probably do want to keep the blog going after all. I probably just need to adjust focus a bit. More on that later.
I am thankful for the opportunity to have a long and newsy lunch with the BFF this week. Going from seeing one another at work every day, even for a few minutes, to not seeing each other unless we plan a girls’ date is a very different scenario. The last few weeks have been insane for reasons on both sides, so we were glad to get in a good long visit.
I am thankful for Sassy Haircut Version 2.0. The one I got about three weeks ago wasn’t short enough. I don’t think I’ve ever said that in my life. I went back a week ago for another inch or so off and I’m so much happier. It’s a very different look for me and I’ve received many compliments during the week. That does a girl’s heart good so I’m really glad my stylist could fit me in and get the job done.
I am thankful to the Rotten Cats for NOT pooping or puking on the floors all week, most especially not on the carpet. Way to go, Boys! Try to hold it together while we’re all being busy this weekend, OK? Because nobody has time to clean up cat yerf.
I’m thankful for a really terrific Mommy-Kidzilla date this week. The Fab Hub had a gig to do one evening this week and so went straight from work to that. Kidzilla and I were on our own and decided to go out for dinner together. We had a great time and got to spend some time alone together that was not fighting over doing homework.
I am thankful that the nasty warm and humid weather has passed and the glorious fall weather is back. I am also thankful for some very cool photos this week.
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And that has to do it for me, friends, because I have errands to run and my morning volunteer duty ran much longer than I expected.
I’m off! I probably won’t get around to read everyone until Sunday, but I’ll get there! In the meantime, share your comments and thankfuls and have a wonderful weekend!
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I, too, am trying to figure out where/if blogging fits into my life. I’m trying to do that which I enjoy (listicles and letters) and less of the “ought-tos” (tweets, maintain a blog FB page, FOCUS memes, read lots of blogs, lots of comments, etc).
My family has encouraged me not to shut it down but to just step back.
I’m anxious to hear about your refocusing 🙂 and am a bit envious of your decision to chart a new career course!
That’s a lot of where I am, Phoebe – I want to do what I enjoy. And the whole social media thing is just not me. I love the connections I’ve made through the blog for sure, but the whole Facebook/Twitter/Instagram whatever world does not interest me for many reasons.
I think your family’s suggestion is a good one – and I’ve had that same suggestion from several others since I’ve been musing about where to go with this. Step back, simplify, then figure out where to go from there. So I’m kind of at the TToT lists right now and my Soup of the Week. The rest? Not sure yet, but stay tuned and do come back!
This new career course is exciting and very scary all at the same time. I know it is the right thing and the best thing for me and my family…the scary part is that I really want to see things take off in a very solid way very quickly and hwen it doesn’t look that way, I start to panic a little (or a lot). But I have some ideas and suggestions for how to help move that along, too, so hopefully there will be exciting developments on that front, too.
Glad you came over to visit and comment! Have missed seeing you around! 😀
YAY to no cat yerf! And to an awesome mommyZilla date and to amazing fall colors and photos. I’m so glad that people have helped remove your funk and that you’ll continue to blog. I think all of us go through a bit of a blog slump here and now – not knowing the point, etc. At least I do. Also thankful that I AM FRIST!
All good things, right? 🙂
I think the slump is about the fact that life has changed here so much and the blog sort of needs to as well. I’ll figure it out. I would so hate to lose the connections to all my great blog friends!
It definitely seems that you are FRIST, minus a comment stuck in spam that needed me to approve. But we’ll go with it on a technicality!
I’m glad you’re back up and running so you could post this.
The colours in your photos are awesome. Enjoy it. I know people *do*, and yeah, alright, it’s pretty 🙂
Glad you’re going to keep blogging.
YAY nice haircut – it’s so good when something happens to boost your confidence and feel like it just ‘fits’ 🙂
Yes, me too! Honestly, I have no idea what happened or why – the Hub took over and talked to the hosting people and now it works. Good enough for me.
The colors are hard to argue with…they were so striking that morning, I just had to grab those photos.
Me, too. Just have to figure out exactly where I’m going with it.
I am way happy with this new haircut – and the fact that it’s much shorter than I would usually be OK with is pretty interesting. It does feel like a good fit, though, for sure.
I keep thinking Im gonna cut off my hair and then I buckle! Did you have long hair before this? So you really like it short though… thats great… I love a good haircut. So hoopla for the rotten men! NO YERFING! So did you guys have a good time away for the day today? Im glad you got back up and running… and are not closing down shop today… at least… I would really miss you out here… I was making soup today and thought of you! hahaha!
Right before the first of the two sassy haircuts, yes, my hair was pretty long – probably longer than it’s been in a while. I just kind of let it grow unheeded all summer and suddenly it was long, straight, lifeless, and style-less. I had my stylist cut it sort of like the Diane Keaton photos I have pinned on my “Hair” board on Pinterest (so silly). Something about it wasn’t quite right and two weeks later, I went back and said here’s where it’s not working and here’s where I think I want it shorter and so she did. It was kind of cool because when I got out of her chair, she said “oh, I definitely like this shorter length” so that was a great feeling. I’ve had tons of compliments since (something that really never happens) and even the Hub, who hates short hair, said it’s cute. So I’m thinking this was a good choice.
Yes, no Rotten Cat yerf, and all things considered they did OK here by themselves while we were away.
We had a WONDERFUL time this weekend and are just hanging around relaxing and enjoying the beautiful weather today.
Thanks for saying you’d miss me – I would miss it, too, I think. I’ve just been feeling like I have to figure out how to make it work for the current version of life. I’ve had lots of input and suggestions so I’m starting to think of some ways to go.
You made soup and thought of me? How cool! What soup did you make??? I just realized it’s Sunday afternoon and I have no soup ready for Monday’s Soup of the Week…this is a problem. I need to get moving!
cool (about not pulling the plug on the blog)… blogs, I’m finding, are very funny things. They start out with one mission/goal and, if they are successful, they secretly acquire other values (for the writer). So, as I have said to other bloggers (and my-own-self), ‘ok so it’s not doing what you set out to do… what is it doing?’ sometimes that answer surprises us.
You know, Clark, that is a good question and a great way to look at it. I really like that approach and will definitely be considering things from that angle as I try to figure out where to go.
Life’s like that, too – you never know where you’re going to find yourself deviating from the original course and finding it was also a great path.
Hope you have a great weekend! I love fall weather; your photos capture autumn well.
Thanks, Kristi! They’re just smartphone camera captures, but when I see one worth grabbing, I go for it. It’s so beautiful around here right now!
YAY to no Cat yerf. How did that happen? I may need secrets for our three!
Yes the weather here has cooled dramatically and I am absolutely loving it.
I have absolutely no idea how it happened. I wish I could offer you my anti-cat-yerf secrets, but I’m afraid the Rotten Cats are the only ones who have control over those.
I am so glad the weather has turned to fall for real. And we have a freeze warning here tonight, so that’s potentially good news for my allergies!
Love that word “yerf”. It may make it’s way into my own vocabulary. 🙂 While I like the word, I’m glad your cats have managed to not yerf this week.
I’m glad you’ve decided to stick it out with the blog. I’d miss catching up with you. I hope you figure something out that works for you and helps you defunk.
We’ve had some lovely colors around here these days. Now if the weather would cooperate so we could get out and enjoy them, I’d be really happy.
Well, I think that yerf is derived from the sound that cats and babies make when they do it. Or something.
I’m working on figuring out where to go with the blog. I’m sticking with the TToT and I’m definitely committed to doing the Soup of the Week posts. Still working on some other ideas.
The color here is absolutely gorgeous! And the weather is finally what I love – cool but not cold/warm but not hot and NOT humid. We were in Hershey, PA this weekend and the scenery there was simply stunning, too!
I’m thankful for the fields of randomly placed hayrolls – they lift my spirits. I’m focusing on how they make me smile as opposed to how they’re going to be lining up soon to be sold, moved, or wrapped in plastic to be stored for winter!
We saw a great many hayrolls and bales this weekend in our travels. Funny, all I could think about was how cool they were sitting there in the fields. I did not think about what happens to them next. Just living in the moment, I guess!
I so love the pictures!! We took a long walk to the bakery in the next town today and enjoyed the scenery and still warm weather (t-shirts in October, yay!!). I’m glad you had a good time with the kiddo! While hubby was pushing the baby today, I walked with the girls and had a ood conversation with them.
How exciting getting a new hair cut. I can’t remember when I last had a cut that I really loved. I’m going to make an appointment with one of these very expensive and creative stylists and hope that they can make me happy again 🙂
Have a great new week, Lisa! And PLEASE keep blogging 🙂
This is just the best and most colorful time of year, isn’t it?
Good conversation with little girls paves the way for good conversation with bigger girls and teenage girls. Keep talking, Mom!
I think if there is one part of me about which I am kind of vain, it’s my hair. I always hate it and I hate when it looks bad. So having a good cut is really something for me!
You have a great week, too, Stephanie and thanks for the vote to keep blogging! 🙂
Ugh, I want to SEE that haircut! Why do you tempt me? The weather has been gorgeous, hasn’t it? October’s bright blue weather. That’s a line from a poem by somebody. I only know that line. And today is was downright chilly. But fun. The beginning of chilliness is always fun. It’s when it says that it gets old.
GLAD TO HEAR YOU’RE STICKING AROUND!
Yup, I know that one! Helen Hunt Jackson – another of my American writer loves. She was a classmate and friend of Emily Dickinson’s and a writer/poet in her own right. Emerson was a fan – quite liked her poetry. I particularly enjoy that one about October.
“O suns and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October’s bright blue weather.
Oops…my English teacher is showing! That poem is exactly everything I love about fall, and October in particular. Always my favorite month.
Thanks for being glad I’m sticking around. Not sure what I’ll be doing in this space just yet…but I’ll be here doing something.
First of all, as Clark would say (and I’m surprised he didn’t), PICTURES OR IT DIDN’T HAPPEN! Either here or in my email in-box 🙂
I hope the Rotten Cats are taking this time with everyone out of the house to sleep and sleep and sleep, with no time for yerfing or pooping or (worse) peeing. And if, IF, they do, then may they do it on a tiled or hardwood surface and NOT on the stairs or other carpeting.
Woo hoo to fun mom/Zilla dates! And relaxed time just to enjoy each other’s company.
Isn’t fall magnificent? The colors, the smells, the temperatures, the different angle of the sunlight. I have pumpkiny/appley/spicy scents in my Wallflowers, and the whole house smells delicious.
And last, let me say that I would miss you terribly if you were no longer blogging. I go through phases where I just can’t come up with anything to write about, so I just don’t. I never fail to do my TToT, though, so at least I have one post a week. If I worry and stew and fret over what I’m writing, then it becomes a job (an UNPAID job, no less) and not fun.
Oh, and if you DID stop blogging (not that you are)? You would not get rid of me that easily! I enjoy our email conversations and would keep sending you messages whether you wanted them or not!
I hope you’ve enjoyed this luscious weekend!
What never happened? My haircut? It so did. But I am not a fan of appearing in pictures – I don’t fancy myself very photogenic. 😛
Can we talk about my freaking stupid cats for a minute? We were gone for 24 hours and they managed to deposit little gems of displeasure on the only carpeted surfaces in the house. JERKS! The Hub says they’re upset that we were gone (we never leave them). I say they are just plain old spoiled rotten. Ugh!
I spend time with Zilla every day – driving to and from school, doing homework, getting dinner ready, bath and bedtime – but somehow that Mom/Zilla date is different. It’s not part of some daily agenda, just time for us. It was good.
Everything about fall makes me positively swoon. I just love every single thing about it. Luscious is a good word for the way the weather and the world are right now. Yes!
Thanks for saying you’d miss me. I’d miss you, too! And so many others. That is the best thing about all of this, the friendships, the camaraderie, the connection with people I would otherwise never have known. I’m glad you wouldn’t let me disappear. I quite enjoy our email chats. 🙂
Now, if I could just figure out what to do about the fact that my Soup of the Week post is very distinctly lacking a finished soup! Something tells me I’m going up late tomorrow…
Now, do the Rotten Cats leave a big deposit, or just a little turd here and there? Fletcher is kind of medium haired and his butt if a little fluffy, so sometimes, a little piece of poo gets stuck in the fur and drops off somewhere in the house (I suspect he tries to outrun it but have never witnessed it).
Most of the time it’s a turd here, a turd there. However. When Cat One gets pissy about something (like us being away for a day), he leaves an intentional deposit. I don’t care what the vets and the websites say about cats not doing things like that intentionally – mine do. No question about it. He did it when the Fab Hub went from the at-home guy to working full time again.
The outrunning the poo thing…that’s something Cat Three would do. He’s already tried to outrun a shopping bag stuck on his foot. That was bad and sad and hysterical all at the same time.
It sounds like it was a great week, Lisa, with lots of bonding time! Hey to Kidzilla for me!!
It was a good week, Michelle! One-on-one time with the Kidzilla is terrific. 🙂
There is such good joy in being busy with your life, yet stopping to jot down the thankfuls. A great haircut and a few compliments are energy producing. Have fun – I’d love to know what was going on this weekend – I’ll have to wait for the next TTOT
We took an overnight trip with Kidzilla to an amusement park Halloween fest (kid-friendly, no creepshows) and to see Disney’s Frozen On Ice. We had a grand time – the weekend was just perfect!